Blog Heap of Links for the day 8 April 2012

Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign violated Democratic Party rules and engaged in improper and possibly illegal actions to steal the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton, according to a worker for Hillary’s campaign. Michele Thomas, a professional photographer in Hollywood, told WND in an exclusive interview that her resistance to the Obama campaign made her a target of intimidation. ... “You can see it in the caucus states with what Ron Paul is experiencing. It is no different from what we experienced. There’s systematic fraud done by the party leadership to manipulate our votes to whatever they want it to be. It has nothing to do with what the American people want.”
[Two dramatic videos. H/t TheTamminator at HillBuzz.]

classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged.... inability to make subject and predicate agree.... allow[s] a string of words to float in space.... uninspired assemblage of words with a nearly random application of commas and tenses.... Scarier than Obama's style, however, is his thinking. A neophyte race-hustler after his three years in Chicago....

In the case of Michelle Obama.... Sympathetic biographer Liza Mundy writes, "Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well." She did not write well, either. Mundy charitably describes her senior thesis at Princeton as "dense and turgid." The less charitable Christopher Hitchens observes, "To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language." Michelle had to have been as anxious at Harvard Law as Bart Simpson was at Genius School. Almost assuredly, the gap between her writing and that of her highly talented colleagues marked her as an affirmative action admission, and the profs finessed her through.
[Blogged before maybe? H/t Crusty B at IMAO]

ask yourself, “what kind of person would you have to be to write over 60 pages of emotion-focussed, self-indulgent, race-centered twaddle?” Also “who hands in their diary and calls it a thesis?”

In a remarkable about-face, the White House is reportedly open to an Iranian nuclear program, as long as Tehran can provide strict assurances the program remains civilian focused. [Right. Just like Korea. h/t War News Update]

America, beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing. I have been saying for the past three and a half years that America needs to look at the big picture of what is going on. Obama and his regime have been laying the groundwork for a communist take over of the United States, but the majority of Americans have barely noticed. [Video]

wear the Internet on your face? ... Google Glasses, now in an early prototype phase [video] ... also slightly scary for anyone concerned about the prying eyes of government surveillance.
[Brings to mind this video about CIA and the Internet]

On Wednesday, Arby's inflamed the conservative blogosphere with the announcement on Twitter that it will no longer advertise on Rush Limbaugh's show. Big mistake. The statement probably would've blown over, like all the rest of them, but Arby's moves following the announcement have awakened a sleeping giant. Shortly after its statement, the Arby's Twitter account went on a rampage blocking users who disagreed with the franchise....
[h/t Cuz ]

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Shirley Marks was five feet tall and barely 100 pounds in 1943 when she finally managed to enlist in the Marine Corps, after trying three times to meet the physical requirements. It was World War II, and she, like 23,000 other American women, answered the call to serve at home so that male Marines could fight overseas. After boot camp, she boarded a troop train to San Diego, where she was assigned to drive trucks at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. …

In 1955, as a seventh grader, Levina spotted a boy she wanted to meet. Finding out he would be at the local skating rink later, she and her friends decided to go as well. That boy noticed her immediately. John T. Reynolds invited her to join him in a couple's skate, and they spent the rest of their lives together. [Obituary for C. Levina Reynolds (1941-2012)]

The First Amendment applies to all Americans. Our nation affirms the truth of inalienable rights for all, working for more than 200 years to make the ideals expressed in the First Amendment a reality in the lives of all Americans. These rights were so important to early citizens and their leaders, many states refused to ratify the Constitution of the United States without the promise of amendments that would protect individual rights.

new armor relies on a liquid that hardens when something hits it, promising unprecedented protection while letting soldiers move freely, unrestricted by bulk and weight.... When the force of the disturbance is large enough, the particles will then actually “lock” together. So when a bullet hits the material at speed, the liquid armor absorbs the impact energy and hardens extremely quickly.
[h/t War News Updates]

The loyal animals are often seen as too fierce to be retrained as pets later, with 807 destroyed in the past decade.

The number has soared thanks to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

[h/t War News Update]

After years of administrative battle a military dog handler was finally reunited with her loyal friend. Former Marine Cpl. Megan Leavey was told in March that she would be allowed to give a home to Sgt. Rex, the german shepherd she spent two military tours serving with. On Friday night the two were brought back together again in an emotional ceremony at Camp Pendleton’s K-9 Unit which marked the end of Rex's ten-year service…. She launched a high-profile campaign, back[ed] by the owners of the Yankees, where Leavey now provides independent security during baseball games and concerts with her new working dog, Patriot.
[h/t War News Update]